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[wierd]

There is a bit of an epidemic with "bad behavior" with teens here, at least in some areas.

For instance, there are endless radio adverts for a behavioral modification program created and endorsed by "behavioral therapist Dr Janet Leeman" who wants to send you her free DVD to help you curb the behaviors of your teen. (So you can try it totally risk free, and if you don't like it, can keep the whole thing! All they want to know is how well it worked for you!)

Seriously, I hear the advert for that crap every day. Here's an idea-- if your child is being defiant, or oppositional, maybe you should ask the child questions about why they are clearly so unhappy, and actually work with them?

No. That can't be it. We have to "totally transform" them.

I always mock the advert when I hear it, saying they want to send you a free mind control kit.

[Flying Dice]

Spoiler: What is this. Some kind of stereotypical attack based on the common reports of what crime goes on here? Think of those WHO LIVE IN THIS AREA PLEASE. (click to show/hide)

Jesus. Fucking. CHRIST.

What's thi-
Well then.
Excuse me I need to go rip apart a mannequin I keep in my closet for these occasions so I don't murder the next person I see.
Ta ta~

You clearly have violent tendencies. Beware lest you get shipped to dig-out-tree-stumps-land.

He is probably too poor to pay for being basically kidnapped.

I mean fuck, I can go to Oceania and get it done for free.

This.

It would be far easier to go to Mexico, anyways. :V

[MaximumZero]

Spoiler: What is this. Some kind of stereotypical attack based on the common reports of what crime goes on here? Think of those WHO LIVE IN THIS AREA PLEASE. (click to show/hide)

Jesus. Fucking. CHRIST.

What's thi-
Well then.
Excuse me I need to go rip apart a mannequin I keep in my closet for these occasions so I don't murder the next person I see.
Ta ta~

You clearly have violent tendencies. Beware lest you get shipped to dig-out-tree-stumps-land.

He is probably too poor to pay for being basically kidnapped.

I mean fuck, I can go to Oceania and get it done for free.

This.

It would be far easier to go to Mexico, anyways. :V

Detroit may be closer, depending.

[Xantalos]

Spoiler: What is this. Some kind of stereotypical attack based on the common reports of what crime goes on here? Think of those WHO LIVE IN THIS AREA PLEASE. (click to show/hide)

Jesus. Fucking. CHRIST.

What's thi-
Well then.
Excuse me I need to go rip apart a mannequin I keep in my closet for these occasions so I don't murder the next person I see.
Ta ta~

You clearly have violent tendencies. Beware lest you get shipped to dig-out-tree-stumps-land.

He is probably too poor to pay for being basically kidnapped.

I mean fuck, I can go to Oceania and get it done for free.

This.

It would be far easier to go to Mexico, anyways. :V

I meant 1984 Oceania. Sorry, should've clarified. :/

[misko27]

That reminds me of the things my mom would tell me. You can never really be 100% on whether my mom is telling the truth or not though, so I had my doubts. But she described that very well.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

It's the same thing as "re-birthing". It's parents who have no idea how to parent, who don't want to work anymore, who want a quick fix, and who are desperately gullible. Possibly, parents who no longer wish to be parents. It's hard to believe that a parent would do that unless they were seriously delusional and/or malevolent.

As a generous man I'll assume they're batshit until they prove malfeasance.

[scrdest]

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So I understand the rage, but did you guys seriously not know this happened? Don't tell me this is all new to you.

Pretty sure most of us are already familiar with it, it's just one of those things. Like how millions of people died in WWI essentially because nationalism, but you can still be pissed off anew every time you think about it.

At least this is very slightly less evil than that racket up in New England with the for-profit child jails conspiring with judges to sentence as many children to them as possible, if only because the government is just passively corrupt, rather than actively corrupt (taking bribes to not act, rather than taking bribes to act).

I fail to see how that is any better.

It's splitting hairs. Like, for example, how Stalin killed millions of people because he was a brutal dictator, as opposed to Hitler, who killed millions of people because he was a brutal dictator who also happened to have an unhealthy attachment to pseudoscience. Fifty million shades of evil, each with a hairsbreadth of separation between themselves and their neighbors.

Stalin also had an unhealthy attachment to pseudoscience. Genetics (and computer science, IIRC) were banned in Stalin's years, and instead a certain little absurd thing known as Lysenkoism was promoted.

[Xantalos]

He also at one point tried to breed a new breed of supersoldier by crossbreeding apes and humans.
Didn't work out that well.

[Nightscar982]

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So I understand the rage, but did you guys seriously not know this happened? Don't tell me this is all new to you.

I'd genuinely never heard of it.

Now, lets see... In DF, I supported... effectively this.

Then in real life, I find it abhorrent.

FUCK YOU TOO, MEDIA!

I sorta recognized this as a thing, but if this is really true I am now much better informed. The stripping of freedom involved and the absurdity of the methods used really pisses me off 
I mean even 'smart' people can still believe in (terribly) wrong ideas, but the fact that people in government have seen this and continue to allow this to happen really shows something, doesn't it...

[Flying Dice]

Spoiler: What is this. Some kind of stereotypical attack based on the common reports of what crime goes on here? Think of those WHO LIVE IN THIS AREA PLEASE. (click to show/hide)

Jesus. Fucking. CHRIST.

What's thi-
Well then.
Excuse me I need to go rip apart a mannequin I keep in my closet for these occasions so I don't murder the next person I see.
Ta ta~

You clearly have violent tendencies. Beware lest you get shipped to dig-out-tree-stumps-land.

He is probably too poor to pay for being basically kidnapped.

I mean fuck, I can go to Oceania and get it done for free.

This.

It would be far easier to go to Mexico, anyways. :V

Detroit may be closer, depending.

The problem with that is that it requires you to find someone in Detroit to be kidnapped by.

Quote pyramid

So I understand the rage, but did you guys seriously not know this happened? Don't tell me this is all new to you.

Pretty sure most of us are already familiar with it, it's just one of those things. Like how millions of people died in WWI essentially because nationalism, but you can still be pissed off anew every time you think about it.

At least this is very slightly less evil than that racket up in New England with the for-profit child jails conspiring with judges to sentence as many children to them as possible, if only because the government is just passively corrupt, rather than actively corrupt (taking bribes to not act, rather than taking bribes to act).

I fail to see how that is any better.

It's splitting hairs. Like, for example, how Stalin killed millions of people because he was a brutal dictator, as opposed to Hitler, who killed millions of people because he was a brutal dictator who also happened to have an unhealthy attachment to pseudoscience. Fifty million shades of evil, each with a hairsbreadth of separation between themselves and their neighbors.

Stalin also had an unhealthy attachment to pseudoscience. Genetics (and computer science, IIRC) were banned in Stalin's years, and instead a certain little absurd thing known as Lysenkoism was promoted.

Even finer distinctions, then. :V

[Putnam]

Lysenkoism is based on Lamarckian genetics. Basically, the idea is that literally everything is hereditary, all the way down to a particular fondness for blue cheese dressing or whatever.

[scriver]

That reminds me of the things my mom would tell me. You can never really be 100% on whether my mom is telling the truth or not though, so I had my doubts. But she described that very well.

Say what? Have your mother threatened to send you to such a place?

[Skyrunner]

It's shocking that the kind of camp that was depicted in the nvlovel Holes actually exists.

[Xantalos]

Well, apart from the ancient curse on the lake and all that.

[miauw62]

It's shocking that the kind of camp that was depicted in the nvlovel Holes actually exists.

Not really, in the novel the camp gets shut down in the end